“A fantastic channel, and they did a number of videos on black holes.”
PBS Space Time black hole series.
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This is from PBS Spacetime series [1]. A fantastic channel, and they did a number of videos on black holes. [1] this video
How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time
2.5M views · Mar 30, 2017 · 15:29 · 4 HN recommenders · 7 mentions · discussed 2018–2025
A PBS Space Time episode explaining how space and time swap roles inside a black hole's event horizon. It is part of the channel's black hole series.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as the cleanest visual explanation of time and space switching roles past the horizon, and a gateway to the channel's black hole videos.
“I think this is the cleanest explanation with actual visual representation.”HN comment, 2020
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“Skip to about 5:15 for the good stuff.”
Explains space and time swapping roles inside the event horizon.
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> ...at the same moment. As an aside, this is a rather funny phrase to be using about objects so massive that time and space actually switch roles inside their event horizons compared to the normal universe. I don't feel like I can explain it very well, but here is a video that does so: this video (Skip to about 5:15 for the good stuff.)
“I think this is the cleanest explanation with actual visual representation.”
Clean visual explanation of space and time inside a black hole.
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link I hope it helps. I think this is the cleanest explanation with actual visual representation. Edit: Sorry this one is even better. How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole | Space Time this video
“PBS Space Time to the rescue”
Part of a PBS Space Time black hole playlist.
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PBS Space Time to the rescue: What Happens at the Event Horizon? - link What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole? - link How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole - this video The Black Hole Information Paradox - link
“I was talking about a PBS Space Time episode on YouTube”
PBS Space Time episode on black holes.
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I just realized I was replying to the wrong parent comment! So sorry. I was talking about a PBS Space Time episode on YouTube I saw in (or came across via) a different comment. this video
“Edit: some places to start”
Starting point for black hole reading.
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Apologies for replying to my own post, but I should have included sources. Here is the best stuff I've found so far: link link link There is an episode of How the Universe Works (I think) where they talk about the multiverse looking like an infinite block of swiss cheese, and each black hole having a child universe inside with its own physics, sealed off from the parent universes. So we're in the black hole where the rules of physics allow us to exist to realize it. In other words, the multiverse used black holes to evolve the rules of physics until consciousness could exist. It's another interpretation of the anthropic principle so isn't really testable, but I thought it was elegant. Wish I could find it. Edit: some places to start: this video link
“space and time swapping roles once you cross the event horizon.”
Space and time swapping roles past the horizon.
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What happens inside a black hole is basically unknowable. We can only ponder the math which leads to ideas like space and time swapping roles once you cross the event horizon.[0] The only thing that comes out is hawking radiation, which is sort of like... half of nothing. [0] this video